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GRIGG, John, publisher, born in Cornwall, England, in 1792; died in Philadelphia, 2 August, 1864. He was left an orphan at six, and at twelve went to sea. After making several voyages he spent a year with relatives in Richmond, Virginia He removed to Warren, Ohio, about 1810, and was clerk of the court there, but resigned in 1815 and became superintendent of a woollen-factory in Scott County, Kentucky. He entered a publishing-house in Philadelphia in 1816, and in 1823 began business on his own account, and was very successful. After taking various partners he retired in 1850, with a large fortune, and afterward became a private banker. He gave constantly and largely, though without ostentation.--His son, John Warner, born about 1819; died in Philadelphia in August, 1869, left $117,000 to various charities in that City.
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